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Match these Shakespeare classics with their modern retellings.

Can you match these Shakespeare classics with their modern retellings?

1. Much Ado About Nothing

2. Twelfth Night

3. Macbeth

4. Othello

5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6. Richard III

7. Hamlet

8. Titus Andronicus

9. Romeo & Juliet

10. King Lear

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1. It’s gender swapped.

2. It’s about 9/11.

3. The drama plays out over Instagram.

4. The real conflict is about race, but not how you think.

5. It’s a jukebox musical.

6. There are high levels of unnecessary audience participation.

7. It all takes place at a Hampton Inn in Sedona.

8. Everyone is white and male for authenticity.

9. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia that is never explained.

10. Puppets.


Answer Key: Every combination is correct and happening right now in a community theatre basement.

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